System for video recording

Abstract

A system and method for utilizing a camera to continuously record video, and a controller to selectively save portions of the recorded video is provided. The system includes a camera and a wireless controller. In operation, the camera records continuously. Upon receipt of a signal from the controller, the camera saves a previous amount of the video to memory. As configured the system allows a user to easily capture exciting moments as they occur without the need to be monitoring and tracking events with the camera.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A video recording system comprising:
 a camera, the camera having a processor, a temporary memory, and a memory;   a controller, the controller in wireless communication with the camera;   wherein the camera is configured to continuously record a video, storing the recorded video in the temporary memory;   wherein the controller is configured to receive an input relating to a time of pre-recorded video, and configured to provide a wireless output signal to the camera indicating the time of pre-recorded video to save;   wherein the processor is configured, upon receipt of the wireless output signal, to cause the camera to save a portion of the recorded video from the temporary memory to the memory as a video clip, the portion of the recorded video being from a most recent recorded video back to the time selected of the previously-recorded video, the processor further configured to cause the camera to delete a remainder of the video of the temporary memory, and configured to cause the camera to begin recording again after receipt of the wireless output signal of the controller.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the temporary memory is a portion of the memory. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the processor is further configured to cause the camera to form a new data structure stored in the memory, the data structure formed as a single video comprising the video clip and a plurality of other video clips configured to play sequentially in a single video. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 3  wherein the data structure comprises a video transition between each of the video clip and plurality of other video clips. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 3  wherein the data structure comprises a plurality of computer-readable markers, each marker corresponding to one of the video clip and the plurality of other video clips, the plurality of markers allowing a computer to identify each of the video clips individually. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 3  wherein the processor is configured to cause the video clip and plurality of other video clips to be deleted from the memory after or during the creation of the new data structure. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the controller is a smart phone. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 7  wherein the smart phone comprises a touch screen display, the touch screen display operable to receive an input to program the time of previously-recorded video to record. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 7  wherein the processor causes the camera to send a wireless signal to the smart phone containing at least a portion of the video clip, the smart phone operable to display the at least the portion of the video clip on the touch screen display. 
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the time of the previously-recorded video to save is one of ten seconds, thirty seconds, forty five seconds, one minute, five minutes, and ten minutes. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 1  wherein the processor causes the camera to immediately start recording again after the wireless output signal is received and at the same time as the camera is saving the video clip to the memory. 
     
     
         12 . A method of forming a computerized video data structure comprising the steps of:
 recording a video continuously by a camera, the video being stored to a temporary memory of the camera;   receiving a wireless signal by the camera from a controller, the wireless signal instructing the camera to save a portion of the previously-recorded video from a present time back for a selected period of time as instructed by the controller, the saving comprising saving the previously-recorded video for the period of time to a memory of the camera as a video clip;   deleting, automatically by the camera, the remainder of the video of the temporary memory; and   recording a second video by the camera after receipt of the wireless signal from the controller.   
     
     
         13 . The method of  claim 12  wherein the temporary memory is a portion of the memory. 
     
     
         14 . The method of  claim 12  further comprising the step of forming a new data structure stored in the memory by the camera, the data structure formed as a single video comprising the video clip and a plurality of other video clips saved in the memory, the data structure configured to play as a single video. 
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the step of forming the data structure comprises adding a video transition between each of the video clip and plurality of other video clips by the camera. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14  wherein the step of forming the data structure comprises adding a plurality of computer-readable markers into the data structure, each marker corresponding to one of the video clip and the plurality of other video clips, the plurality of markers allowing identification of each of the video clips individually. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising the step of deleting, by the camera, the video clip and the plurality of other video clips from the memory after or during the step of creating the new data structure. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 12  wherein the controller is a smart phone. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 18  wherein the smart phone comprises a touch screen display, and comprising the step of selecting the time length using the touch screen display. 
     
     
         20 . The method of  claim 12  wherein the step of recording the second video is begun immediately after the wireless signal from the controller is received.